The Burning Time

A smart and topical thriller * Financial Times (Best New Thrillers 2023) *A compelling, fast-paced thriller blended with environmental issues. Hotly topical * Sun *This adrenalin-laced adventure packs a mighty punch … Peter Hanington’s global thriller could not be more topical * Irish Independent *Deftly plotted … a propulsive read * Straits Times *Peter Hanington is a master of his craft and in William Carver he gives us the hero we didn’t know we needed in an age of fake news and egregious political liars … Hanington’s triumph is to blend a brilliant thriller with a timely and essential reminder of what journalism is supposed to be. He rides the zeitgeist like Frankie Dettori rides horses – James O’Brien, LBCThe Burning Time is terrific. [It] will be a classic of the genre – Peter Hennessy, author of A DUTY OF CAREA wonderfully taut piece of plotting and, like all good roller-coasters, it regularly turns your stomach over as you are swept along; Hanington’s endlessly inventive story telling gives you that edgy feeling that everything (the whole world, in this case) could go horribly wrong by the end of the book, and it boasts more bodies than a Jacobean Revenge charity. Thank God for the reassuring presence of William Carver – Edward StourtonWell written and paced, this thriller is both a tribute to and a demonstration of the importance of traditional investigative journalism * Literary Review *Peter Hanington has a journalist’s nose for stories likely to make tomorrow’s Radio 4 news … The Burning Time is a headline-grabbing thriller * Shots Mag *Seeks to expose the dark arts, denialism and danger of the carbon lobby and adds another fine and important thriller to an exceptional series – Material Witness blog

Peter Hanington is a writer and journalist. His critically acclaimed William Carver thrillers begin with A Dying Breed and star the eponymous old-school radio journalist against a backdrop of high-stakes international espionage. He is also the author of the Susan Cotton series of crime novels, which are set in Brighton and begin with The Darkest Tide.

Peter worked as a radio journalist for over twenty-five years including stints at Radio 4, the BBC World Service, The World Tonight and sixteen years on the Today Programme. He lives in London with his wife and has two grown-up children living in Glasgow.